All of the schools in the Englewood district have been checked after the arrest this past weekend of a head custodian for allegedly installing a video camera in a Dwight Morrow High School bathroom.

A female employee, who is part of the night shift cleaning crew that services the school, discovered the hidden camera in a bathroom she uses after school hours and took it to police Jan. 31.

In reviewing the video, she discovered that she had been filmed using the bathroom. There was also a clip that showed her boss, head custodian Francisco Javier Lopez-Martinez, installing the camera, police said.

Lopez-Martinez asked her to return the camera to him, but she refused, police said.

Police obtained an arrest warrant for Lopez-Martinez and launched an overnight search for him. The man's family told police that when Lopez-Martinez found out his co-worker had gone to the police about his actions, the 59-year-old Bergenfield man said he wanted to kill himself.

Lopez-Martinez was hiding around the Dwight Morrow High School campus threatening suicide and refusing to surrender, police said.

The school campus was sealed off, and patrol officers, a school official and a K-9 unit from the Bergen County Sheriff's Office conducted a search that lasted several hours. When the officers finally found Lopez-Martinez early on Feb. 1, he was holding a handgun, police said.

An officer wrested the gun from his hand and handcuffed him, police said. Nobody was injured, and the gun was determined to be an airsoft weapon that resembled a large-caliber semiautomatic handgun.

Lopez-Martinez, who had initially been charged with one count of third-degree invasion of privacy, was additionally charged with burglary, possession of a weapon for unlawful use, illegal possession of a handgun on school grounds, hindering apprehension, obstruction of justice and resisting arrest by flight.

He was sent to Bergen New Bridge Medical Center in Paramus for a psychological evaluation and was transported to the Bergen County Jail for his first court appearance.

Englewood Schools Superintendent Robert Kravitz said that all bathrooms and classrooms were inspected Sunday. "The board conducted its own investigation, which indicated that our buildings are secure in the wake of this incident," he said.

Police say there is no evidence suggesting that any children or school staff members were recorded, and only the one victim was targeted. An investigation is continuing.

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